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Cossey sees private landfill as solution for county Cossey said he guessed it would be able to dump its By David Blackburn private sector was to move in of a new landfill in Trigg "We can't wait for some would take about $1 million to garbage for free, the county Staff Reporter here," Cossey said in the County. thing to happen," he told the start a private landfill that would also have to take in court's monthly meeting. "There's not enough money fiscal court. would meet the state require trash from elsewhere. ^ CADIZ, KY - Trigg County The court has already de in this county to operate" a And they are not. Cossey ments and to bring in garbage "The only way Trigg Judge/Executive told the clared its intent to close the landfill going by the new state said Livingston County from outside the county. That, County can get a free ride is if Trigg Fiscal Court Wednes present county landfill by regulations, Cossey said Judge/Executive Ralph Smith he said, is one of the negative (a local private landfill) is day, Jan. 9, of a solution for Jan. 1, 1992, rather than meet Monday. If the county has to told him recently that some points of a private place to regional," he said. the county's waste woes. tough, new state regulations. haul off its garbage, he added, people were interested in dump garbage. Another negative aspect is "There's only one way for Now, county officials are it could cost $30 to $80 per building a private landfill in Even though Trigg County Please see PRIVATE, Page A-13 us to be a winner; that's if a looking to private ownership household. Trigg County. ^School board hears t i u P E N S The Trigg County Adult Day Center opened Jan. 2. Car olyn Bland, director of the Senior Citizens Kitchen, said 'concerns,' looks the center is a five-day-a-week respite service that relieves caregivers of the day-to-day supervision of family mem to save $260,000 bers who are unable to care for themselves. For more r ________ i..- _________ n at: ____ t ______eroo noi A By David Blackburn 1990, monitoring report, Staff Reporter Johnson cited five concerns in the elementary school, - CADIZ, KY - The Trigg seven in the middle school "C o u n ty Board of Education and six in the high school. heard some bad news and The concerns dealing with some good news at its regular the high and middle schools monthly meeting Jan. 14. were mostly about the science Peggy Johnson, a member labs and chemical storage of the Kentucky Board of Edu rooms. Also, Johnson said a cation's Division of Accredi teacher in each school was tation, told the local board that teaching out of field and the there were some changes restrooms were not accessible ^ n eed ed in the three Trigg to the handicapped. ^C ou n ty schools. Assistant Superintendent Later in the meeting, the Jim Wallace said the high board voted to make a change and middle schools' concerns of its facility plan in order to came about because the 1990- save the school system about '91 school year is the first that $260,000. the state has set up regulations Before listing the team's to follow when dealing with u . - 4 concerns, Johnson com hazardous materials. mended the school district for The elementary school con developing and implement cerns dealt mainly with in ing a comprehensive scope- sufficient size, instructional and-sequence curriculum space and storage space. guide. The guide was coordi Johnson said the facility was nated with the Kentucky Pro not accessible to the handi gram of Studies (K-12). capped. "You should be very proud of Another concern dealt with what you have accomplished the school district's trans with the curriculum plan," portation. Johnson said the she said. district's one-bay bus garage Under the new accreditation for 24 busses does not meet the plan, she said, a state board state requirement which says team makes a series of visits Trigg must have at least three to a school district instead of a work bays. three- or four-day visit. The The school board voted team now lists a "concerns" it unanimously later in its has about deficiencies in the meeting to change, with state FRIENDS AND FLOWERS: (Above right) Cozy Neeble hugged Car schools instead of "non-com board approval, its facility olyn Bland, director of the Senior Citizens Kitchen, which is the current site of the Adult Day Center until renovation is done on the Old Masonic pliances." plan, which would erase the building next door. (Right) Mary Jo Snyder gave Lizzie Clark a paper Johnson, going by a Nov. 15, Please see CONCERN, Page A-13 flower that Clark had made during the group's crafts period. (Above) Snyder led the group in some exercises. (Photos by David Blackburn) Flu bugs elementary school Trigg County Elementary year. Most of our absenteeism School has seen a dramatic is in the Elementary School Oaken officially enters race for state treasurer's post drop in attendance over the and doctors just say it is due to portant announcement that I past few days as a flu bug illness," Pisa said. By Larry Young Wednesday during the "You know, I'm kind of have made in my life. Today, keeps students at home. Staff Reporter Cadiz/Trigg County Chamber like a homing pigeon. I al at home in Cadiz, I am for According to August Pisa, As for whether schools will of Commerce meeting at ways come back home, no mally announcing my can Director of Pupil Personnel, close should things get worse, CADIZ, KY - Former State Hamtown Restaurant. matter how far away I go. didacy for office of Treasurer £ there was a 13-percent absen Pisa says it's a wait-and-see Tourism Secretary and Trigg Mrs. Oaken said that she Home for me for the last 23 for the Commonwealth of tee rate on Monday and an 11- situation. "We'll continue to County resident Mary Ray was a rural Kentuckian and years has been Cadiz and Kentucky," she said. percent rate on Tuesday. monitor it, but it hasn't moved Oaken officially threw her that Cadiz was the most natu Trigg County. I am a rural She went on to say that she "That's about seven percent into the middle school at this hat into the ring for the state ral place to make her an Kentuckian and so I’ve come over our normal rate last time," he said. treasurer's post last nouncement. home to make the most im Please see OAKEN, Page A-l 3 World War IIvet urges families of soldiers overseas to have hope By David Blackburn ation Desert Shield. "When I watch 'em now, I Staff Reporter "I know what war is, and a just think that it was last week man remembers what it is," or so they were all little kids CADIZ, KY — Kenneth he said. "And now it’s the just having fun... Now, we've Cundiff knows what war is lady-folks, too." all gotten old and fat," he said like. Cundiff, on an oxygen line with a chuckle. Cundiff, his older brother while he recovers from a heart The smile faded as he said and four brothers-in-law were attack and a case of pneumo having get-togethers 41 years in World War II; his step nia that hit just before apart tends to make you re brother was in Korea and Christmas, talked slowly and member some things. Vietnam; and Cundiff's with a raspy voice about what "The important thing is if a youngest brother and his step war can do to a family. war breaks out, someone's father were in World War II, "World War II scattered us gonna die," he said. But if Korea a n d Vietnam. all over the country," said wives, mothers and fathers On Thursday, with the Cundiff, the second of seven will remember, "a lot of us United Nation's Jan. 15 children, as he watched a came back," Cundiff added deadline for Iraq to pull out of videotape of a September 1990 holding a photo album of the Kuwait looming near, Cun reunion at his Hillview Drive reunion. "They should have diff drew on his family's home. The reunion was the hope, and I'm sure they do. first time since 1939 that all "W ar over there is more REUNION WITH THE PAST AND PRESENT MEET: Ken Cundiff watched a tape of a reunion with his survival to encourage the six brothers and sisters. Cundiff, who received the Purple Heart and five bronze starts in World War II, and families with loved ones in Cundiffs brothers and sisters than just a potential war now. other members of his family have a total of over 200 years of combat experience among them. Saudi Arabia as part of Oper had all been together. Please see HOPE, Page A-l 3 A-2, The Cadiz Record, Wednesday, January 16,1991 (©pinion Rose got raw deal; war draws near in Persian Gulf * This week's column is go broken records and set son, for one. I guess if they should not go to war, but I'm special cameras and it really ing to be on a different sort of records that will remain on ever make a remake of the still convinced that President looked scary to me.